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I came across this unusual word in my reading: ' "I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. Last night it was pullulating with women. You're to come away at once, out of danger." '

I suppose it often has a negative connotation when not talking about dispassionate scientific things, like if you were talking about people or ideas such as in the quote.

Definition of the verb pullulate

1. (of animals, etc) to breed rapidly or abundantly; teem; swarm

2. (of plants or plant parts) to sprout, bud, or germinate

Word origin

Origin from Latin pullulāre to sprout, from pullulus a baby animal, from pullus young animal

It's where the word "pullet" for a young hen comes from, and the word for chicken in French.

Has anyone heard this word before?

panjandrum - a powerful person with great influence. A nonsense word originally and has an association of self-importance and pompousness.

proscribe - officially forbid or condemn as dangerous or harmful.

aegis - protection or support from a powerful person or organisation. Usually used in the phrase "under the aegis of"

superogatory - doing above what is needed morally or legally

stertorous - loud, low-pitched, rattling sound while breathing, due to snoring or blocked airway

persiflage - funny, light-hearted and frivolous conversation

semaphore - system used to send signals over distance, particularly using flags or lights. Used in transport and computer processes.

vaunt - to brag or boast about, "vaunted" as an adjective is used to mean much-talked-about, bragged about or highly praised.

contiguous - sharing a border, touching or an event happening after an other

apposite - pertinent, very appropriate or relevant to the situation.

Here's some more words I've found mostly from reading 19th century literature and literary criticism. Any words that might be useful to you or that you already knew?

panjandrum - a powerful person with great influence. A nonsense word originally and has an association of self-importance and pompousness.

proscribe - officially forbid or condemn as dangerous or harmful.

aegis - protection or support from a powerful person or organisation. Usually used in the phrase "under the aegis of"

superogatory - doing above what is needed morally or legally

stertorous - loud, low-pitched, rattling sound while breathing, due to snoring or blocked airway

persiflage - funny, light-hearted and frivolous conversation

semaphore - system used to send signals over distance, particularly using flags or lights. Used in transport and computer processes.

vaunt - to brag or boast about, "vaunted" as an adjective is used to mean much-talked-about, bragged about or highly praised.

contiguous - sharing a border, touching or an event happening after an other

apposite - pertinent, very appropriate or relevant to the situation.

I hope you find this list useful or at least interesting. And I hope I've remembered the definitions correctly.

1. autochthonous - indigenous to that place, such as a person or plant species etc
2. congeries - groups of different things placed together in a haphazard way. Often used in the plural.
3. machicolated - jutting parapet on the side of a castle wall with holes in through which you can fire arrows etc and therefore defend the castle from attackers climbing up the walls.
4. debouch - get out of a car
5. vitiated - to spoil, impair, or invalidate the quality or legal effectiveness of something. Has a general and a legal meaning.
6. prolixity - overly verbose, wordy language
7. bowdlerize - censor certain words and passages of a work of literature to make it less offensive to modern readers
8. lapidary - concise and exact regarding language. Is also to do with gemstone cutting.
9. orotund - rounded, sonorous sound of voice (to hear). For written language the definition is more negative, meaning an overly grandiose vocabulary in writing.
10. integuments - the outer skin or shell of something

As advised on here, I would like to try taking lactoferrin alongside my iron tablets to increase absorption. Which brands would you suggest. I'm not good with big pills or capsules

I usually use condensed milk and cream whipped together which creates ice cream with a good soft, creamy texture but I want to work on the taste by adding eggs and maybe butter.

So here's the ingredients:

100ml whole milk

25ml double cream

1 egg yolk

50g granulated sugar

1/4 tsp vanilla bean paste

After making the custard (heat milk and cream and temper eggs+ sugar and bring whole thing to a gentle boil, then cool) you add to an ice cream maker.

Will these ingredients give a good vanilla ice cream?

I've never used milk before. I would have thought double/heavy cream would be better to give a creamy ice cream.